Heron Bay

Plans to spend $627 million on 44 projects meant to aid recovery from the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico were approved Friday, but environmentalists are fuming that $58 million will go to an Alabama beachfront hotel they say will hurt rather than help the Gulf.

A Parkland man who reportedly confessed to stabbing his wife to death last month during a fight after he caught her kissing another man appeared before a judge Wednesday morning. Alrick Oral Brown entered plea of not guilty.